old stuff from December, 2005

coding is easy, content isn’t

Tuesday, 20 December 2005 9:34 pm by noel
posted in site

i’ve always found it easy to get the web page coding (html/xhtml and css) done fairly quickly. but making the content for those pages is more of a problem, for me at least.
the home page and its template, the supporting pages and the templates for second pages (the next page within the web site that [...]

template mashing

Tuesday, 20 December 2005 8:30 pm by noel
posted in theme, wordpress

i’m still messing around with my chosen template in the blog. i changed the sidebar titles, changed the links, added this and that, removed the profile section and replaced the “<<” with an icon at the bottom part of each post.
little things really. i’m sure there’ll be more “little” changes in the future and i’ll [...]

my first taste of blog spam

Tuesday, 20 December 2005 8:16 pm by noel
posted in site

i got an e-mail about a comment in one of my blogs — i have a couple aside fromthis one. the e-mail was from my blog asking me to approve or reject a comment. the message just contained links to casinos. ugh. reject.
good thing i enabled comment moderation from the start.

web log on site

Sunday, 18 December 2005 6:25 pm by noel
posted in site

after a handful of hours thinking about it and about 30 minutes of tinkering i finally got alanguilan.com to play nice with blogger. it seems logical, at least to me, to put something like a blog on the site. but i wanted it to be easy to set up and maintain and i’ve had some [...]